Westside Parkway

Dokken Engineering was retained by the City of Bakersfield to provide consulting services for phases 1 (Mohawk Street), 2 and 4 of the Westside Parkway project from PS&E through design support of construction. Phase 1 (Mohawk Street) is currently under construction. Phase 2 began construction in September 2009. The design for Phase 4 will be completed in winter 2009.

Mohawk Street will be widened from 2 to 6 lanes and will cross over Westside Parkway creating an interchange with 6 ramps configured in a partial cloverleaf. All ramps will be free flow ramps except for the signalized lefts for ramps exiting Westside Parkway.

Mohawk street is a new 6 lane arterial with 3 bridges, BNSF Grade Separation, Westside Parkway OC and the Kern River Bridge. The portions of the Westside Parkway that the Dokken team designed include the Mohawk street interchange, 1.5 miles of freeway, the Truxtun Tie-in partial interchange; this project includes two bridges over the Kern River.

All three phase’s for this project have been delivered under highly accelerated schedules. Phase 1 and 2 were completed within 16 months and Phase 4 was delivered from 5% conceptual design t o 65% PS&E within 3 months.